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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.

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I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.

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People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.

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I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

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To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.

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People like to say how much they like stuff, but with 'The Sunset Tree,' people shared stories about what it meant for them. And that stuff's so humbling and amazing.

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I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.

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People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

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Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.

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The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 16th, 1967

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